
Glass is a fascinating and beautiful material to photograph for the many ways that the material can be formed and how light can accentuate its beauty. There’s no limit to creativity for this challenge. Beauty can be found in household paperweights, vases, bottles, light bulbs, drinking glasses as well as stained glass and sculptures (like the one above from Dale Chihuly). We encourage you to photograph the glass in a manner that doesn’t simply document the item, but to explore a different vantage point and compositions of the subject to make your photo unique. Perhaps try macro settings and play with the sense of scale. Have fun with different light sources to illuminate your subject.
Don’t forget to vote your choice for the people’s choice POTD for the landmark interiors challenge. Voting ends on January 9th at 9:00 am (EST)
OFFICIAL ENTRY RULES
To officially enter the Creative Challenge, you must tag your three submissions with creative-challenge-glass. You can then view them and everyone else’s submissions on the DISPLAY PAGE (it updates about every hour). To find out more about this, read the Using Tags on Creative Challenges post.
Submission Guidelines
1. Our editors look for sharp, clear horizontal images that are at a minimum resolution of 800×600 (submissions can have larger resolutions than this). Currently, vertical images cannot fit in the homepage template. Therefore, we cannot publish vertical or narrow panoramic images.
2. Images with added text or images, including watermarks, logos, copyright symbols, graphic borders, frames and time stamps, will not be considered for first place or being featured on the homepage big photo of the day at a later date. Collages, however, are acceptable. Images submitted should be your own.
3. Please do not submit pictures that have already been featured on the homepage.
4. The Creative Challenge runs from 12:01 a.m. on January 4th, through 12:00 p.m on January 16th (all times EST).
5. 3 pictures per person (regardless of how many member accounts you have) tagged exactly (including hyphens) with: creative-challenge-glass. *Note: Images that don’t meet the exact guidelines can be submitted and viewed for everyone to enjoy, but please understand that we cannot publish images that don’t meet minimum guidelines on the homepage.
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